Re: X eating all my memory!!
*- On 3 May, Havoc Pennington wrote about "Re: X eating all my memory!!"
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> On Sun, 2 May 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
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>> This is crazy! Why is X taking so much memory? This is the result of
>> ps axmw trimmed to show only X and netscape(4.5glibc2). The machine has
>> only been up just under 2 days.
>>
>
> Remember that applications can allocate server-side resources, such as
> pixmaps. Pixmaps are pretty big. So if an app is buggy and doesn't
> deallocate these things the X process can get largish.
>
> Not to say the X server isn't at fault, but it's more likely to be a buggy
> application.
>
More info.
Ok, this makes since. But this behavior only started showing up after
I upgraded from Vincent's 3.3.3.1-0 packages to Joey's 3.3.3.1-1
packages. I run Matlab and have noticed that the apperance of the
figure windows causes the X memory to increase. So either Matlab has a
problem that was being blocked by -0 packages and all previous X
packages back since '93 or something changed in -1.
Now the problem is to trace it down.
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Brian
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